NDLI: Geospatial approach in mapping soil erodibility using CartoDEM – A case study in hilly watershed of Lower Himalayan Range

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Author	Kumar, Suresh Gupta, Surya
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	Soil erodibility is one of the most important factors used in spatial soil erosion risk assessment. Soil information derived from soil map is used to generate soil erodibility factor map. Soil maps are not available at appropriate scale. In general, soil maps at small scale are used in deriving soil erodibility map that largely generalized spatial variability and it largely ignores the spatial variability since soil map units are discrete polygons. The present study was attempted to generate soil erodibilty map using terrain indices derived from DTM and surface soil sample data. Soil variability in the hilly landscape is largely controlled by topography represented by DTM. The CartoDEM (30 m) was used to derive terrain indices such as terrain wetness index (TWI), stream power index (SPI), sediment transport index (STI) and slope parameters. A total of 95 surface soil samples were collected to compute soil erodibility factor (K) values. The K values ranged from 0.23 to 0.81 t ha$^{−1}$R$^{−1}$ in the watershed. Correlation analysis among K-factor and terrain parameters showed highest correlation of soil erodibilty with TWI (r $^{2}$= 0.561) followed by slope (r $^{2}$= 0.33). A multiple linear regression model was developed to derive soil erodibilty using terrain parameters. A set of 20 soil sample points were used to assess the accuracy of the model. The coefficient of determination (r $^{2}$) and RMSE were computed to be 0.76 and 0.07 t ha$^{−1}$R$^{−1}$ respectively. The proposed methodology is quite useful in generating soil erodibilty factor map using digital elevation model (DEM) for any hilly terrain areas. The equation/model need to be established for the particular hilly terrain under the study. The developed model was used to generate spatial soil erodibility factor (K) map of the watershed in the lower Himalayan range.
Starting Page	1463
Ending Page	1472
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISSN	02534126
Journal	Journal of Earth System Science
Volume Number	125
Issue Number	7
e-ISSN	0973774X
Language	English
Publisher	Springer India
Publisher Date	2016-09-16
Publisher Institution	Indian Academy of Sciences
Publisher Place	New Delhi
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Soil erodibilty DTM terrain parameters soil erosion watershed. Earth Sciences Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics)
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	1900/1901

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